"15. Jacob4 Hitchcock (Luke3, John2, Luke1) son of Luke and Elizabeth (Walker) Hitchcock, was born in Springfield, Mass., March 4,1708—9 and there died Feb. 12, 1746—7, as shown in Springfield records and his gravestone. His will shows his business as shopkeeper and maker of earthen ware. It was admitted to probate March 10, 1746—7, and names his brother Luke and wife Bathsheba as executors. It gives: 'To Bathsheba, my wife, the shop standing in the northerly corner of my old dwelling house, (the same to be fitted up for her out of my estate as follows,—the cellar to be well stoned up and a chimney built in it, the same to be well walled round and ceiled or else lathed and plaistered) and my barn, blacksmith shop and earthen ware shop kiln, and implements used in making earthen ware to use and improve so long as she remain my widow … and all other goods that are used in housekeeping, except what household goods and estate I had by my first wife. To my son Jacob all my real estate except … he paying to my two daughters hereafter named more than five-thirteenths parts of what all the children have to be paid to the said two daughters within the space of five years after he shall arrive to the full age of twenty-one years, to Abigail four-thirteenths part and to Elizabeth four-thirteenths part and the household goods of my first wife to be divided equally among these two daus.'"
